<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">So I downloaded the source tarball and followed the instructions to build kstars and encounter the following problems<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Package kdoctools-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">is only available from another source</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Package kio-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">is only available from another source</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">E: Package 'kio-dev' has no installation candidate</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">E: Package 'kdoctools-dev' has no installation candidate</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> git clone --depth 1 <a href="git://anongit.kde.org/kstars.git" class="">git://anongit.kde.org/kstars.git</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Cloning into 'kstars'...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">fatal: remote error: Please use the https: protocol to connect to anongit</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sudo apt install kdoctools5</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sudo apt install libkf5doctools-dev libkf5doctools5</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">----------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> sudo cmake install</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">[sudo] password for andrew:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">CMake Error: The source directory "/home/andrew/Projects/build/kstars/install" does not exist.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-----------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">bin/kstars</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">org.kde.kstars: Failed to create local astrometry directory</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Call to writableLocation without an application-based location.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">org.kde.kstars: Welcome to KStars 3.5.7 Beta</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">org.kde.kstars: Build: 2021-11-30T16:48:57Z</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">org.kde.kstars: OS: "ubuntu"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">org.kde.kstars: API: "x86_64-little_endian-lp64"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">org.kde.kstars: Arch: "x86_64"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">org.kde.kstars: Kernel Type: "linux"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">org.kde.kstars: Kernel Version: "5.13.0-21-generic"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">org.kde.kstars: Qt Version: 5.15.2</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">org.kde.kstars: "Critical File not Found: TZrules.dat"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class="">Couldnt find a TZRules.dat in the tar ball or the git clone</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class="">At which point I gave up</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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